I miss camping...

[Wiggletastic]

We only started camping this year. We love traveling so it seemed like a good plan with a small DD and no cash to spend on the type of exotic foreign holidays we used to have. We loved it! And so did DD. But what do campers do in the winter when you can't go camping and you can't afford weekends in hotels or fancy foreign trips?

Oh my gosh, have you seen the bargain amazon are selling the trangias for at the mo?!

Wow

Trangias are way cooler thn cobbs

ooh, hello everyone, I think I've found my spiritual home on MN! Am pining very badly for life under canvas, managed four different camps over the summer, it was the best school holidays we ever had. I spend all my time looking at tent porn for next season as we currently have to use two tents due to DS1's very long legs getting in everyones way.

Bunitng? And how do you power fairy lights? Whats wrong with a wind break? Or a washing up bowl for that matter? People I need educating.

ooh nice one omdb i heart vangos.

omdb my winter task is to make my own bunting for next year's trips .

how heavy is 13kg? sounds a lot.

solar fairy lights lostinwales (guilty!). i bet even omdb wouldn't object to washing up bowl on showerless sites.

solar powered fairy lights.

I don't object to waashing up bowls if someone else brings them!

I just can't physically take one with me when we use public transport to get to the campsites, so we just use a durable carrier bag instead.

13kg is actually not very light is it mf? I like vangos. Relaible.

omdb you need one of these

lol I love it mollie!

cor mollie that is the dog's bollocks innit

(quietly lusting after the fairy lights, don't tell omdb)

so you know i'm going to need help finding the Perfect Tent in the sales, don't you? i'm sure someone told me to wait off til the christmas sales though...

I also have this and it is fab.

we leave the tent at home and go to a YHA - some will take children under three.

You get kitchen and equipment so can make all your own food

what's the firebowl like, mollie? i can't see a pic. plus what's the great advantage if you just have to lug briquettes about with you anyway?

Why not try a Yurt? There is a company that hires them out on their land in Mid Wales and we are going there ourselves over the Halloween weekend.
www.strawberryskys.co.uk Still camping...but in luxury

I am working at our local campsite. There are 2 teepees there that weren't there yesterday. They set up in the rain and it has been raining ever since.
Are these people mad??

speaking of small and light i need a Stern Talking To, have been browsing for plane/trainable tents and so far come up with this which would be the thick end of £500 if i could even get one in this country [rolleyes]

(at least i discounted the cotton version on grounds of weight, there's hope for me yet...)

i can't get over the france/august=hot thing and since cotton isn't going to happen size/weightwise what appealed to me about the green one (apart from the colour ) is that it has doors either side of the sleeping pod which would be cool, no?

aaanyway, any more suggestions more than happy to see them...

mwff- not going to help as have seen a couple of Eureka tents up close and they are wonderful -my dream tents only place found that had any in the UK was Taunton Leisure - would go for the TC if doing france as so so lovely [wistful emoticon] weight not much different still less than ryanair luggage allowance....they do have an outlet section on their website - which I oogle at occasionally..

oh lawd you're not helping are you party am queen of overpriced tents already, let alone utterly somewhat impractical cotton ones (btw the cotton is sold out at taunton so thankfully not an option)